10 most iconic songs from the Americas

There are just too many if one counts the whole North American area. So much so that this skips over the Bill Haley, Drifters, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly time and lobs into the 60s as its start point. The songs had to be iconic or scene-shifting, i.e. they created something not done before.

Even then it was near impossible to get 10. Anyway, here are mine:

1 Blowin in the wind May 63

http://youtu.be/TL_FEFMlzVY

2 Good vibrations October 66

http://youtu.be/TCeD_6Y3GQc

3 San Francisco May 67

4 White Light White Heat January 68

5 All along the watchtower Sep 68

6 Proud Mary January 1969

7 Me and Bobby McGee 1971

8 Born to run August 74

9 No woman no cry May 75

10 Can’t touch this January 90

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Other songs I was choosing from:

Crying July 61
Then he kissed me September 63
Eve of destruction July 65
Respect July 65
When a man loves a woman March 66
River deep mountain high May 66
Light my fire June 67
White Rabbit June 67
So long Marianne February 1968
The weight August 68
Magic Carpet Ride September 1968
Goin on up the country August 69
Bridge over Troubled Water February 70
Jessica August 73
Hotel California December 76

Can’t argue with the ten from the 1960s +. It’s an impossible task to be all-inclusive – I get that.
But excluding the Great American Songbook with melodies and some of the best lyrics ever – lyrics never to be forgotten is a shame.
Maybe another post, another era?

Oh – forgot to say – no Neil Diamond in your selection.
Cracklin’ Rosie best known (not best song).